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Canada-Nova Scotia Province lures Lankan businessmen A new immigration program introduced by the Nova Scotia Province has enabled Sri Lankan businessmen and skilled workers to skip the long waiting system and get into the East Coast of Canada within a short time. The Nova Scotia Nominee Program has been designed to lure the business community and skilled workers as the Province is in need of the such people to support its development activities, as stated by Canada's only Provincial Minister of Immigration Rodney MacDonald said President and CEO of Canada Wide Immigration and Settlement Inc. Nalaka Weerasinghe. Weerasinghe, a Sri Lankan domiciled in Canada with wide experience in immigration consultancy is now in Colombo to assist prospective Sri Lankans who have sought permanent residency in Canada. He told the Sunday Observer that those who seek immigration under the business and skilled worker category no longer need to wait in a long list to get into Canada with the introduction of the Nova Scotia Nominee Program. The complicated point system used by Ottawa to determine eligibility does not apply to the immigrants sponsored by Nova Scotia. The Federal Government of Canada recently authorised the Nova Scotia Province to select and nominate applicants who are interested in settling in the Province. In one program, immigrants with $128,800 are guaranteed to get in to the country, as long as they are healthy and don't pose a security risk, he said. The federal point system that usually determines eligibility is waived under the new program and immigrants are granted landed status within a year. The regular system takes an average of three years and meets strict criteria about the background, education and ties to the country of the prospective applicant. |
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